Eric

Eric is a male name, originating in Scandinavia. It is a Christian name after St Eric, King Eric IX of Sweden; its name day is May 18th. It means 'Strong Leader.'

Famous people named Eric (or Erik) include:

• Eric I of Denmark, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII,
• Eric I of Norway, II
• Eric I of Sweden, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV
• Erik the Red, the Viking explorer
• Erik The Red, the comic book character
• Eric Arthur Blair, famous author who wrote under pen name George Orwell
• Eric Judy, bassist for the rock band Modest Mouse
• Eric Brown, science fiction author
• Eric Rohmann, author and illustrator of children's books
• Eric Anthony Martlew, politician
• Erik Larsen, Far Side comic book artist
• Eric Moulds, American football wide receiver
• Eric Heiden, American speed skater

Other uses of Eric:

• Faust Eric, a Discworld novel
• Emotion Eric, a web site
• ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education that maintains a database of journal and non-journal educational literature at http://www.eric.ed.gov.
• Eric, an IDE for the Python programming language

An institute called eric

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993–2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free. ERIC is moving forward with its modernization program, and has begun acquiring materials for addition to the database.